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[12/15/06] MST conducted 45% more land occupations under Lula, according to CPT
According to Brazil’s Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), the MST conducted 45% more land occupations during the first four years of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s presidency, when compared to the second four-year term of ex-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC...
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the Friends of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement! As the year comes to a close, we thought it appropriate to share our work with you in this 2006 End-of-Year Report [SEE BELOW]. As you reflect on these important solidarity efforts, many of which you helped to make successful, we also ask that you consider...
[11/28/06]
Dear Friends of the MST,
Education is a basic right for everyone, not the privilege of a few. Since 1989, it is with this conviction that the MST has fought for land reform that includes the issue of free and quality public education for rural people and in rural areas. So far, the landless movement has achieved...
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Some 100 Brazilian Indians and land-rights protestors stopped shipments from one of the world's largest wood pulp producers on Tuesday after they occupied a major port to demand land owned by the company.
Indians from the Guarani and Tupiniquim tribes brought the Portocel port of Aracruz Celulose (ARA...
Brazilian landless farmworkers occupy port to demand land
The Associated Press | Published: November 30, 2006
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SAO PAULO, Brazil: Thousands of landless farmers occupied a port in a northeastern state for several hours Thursday to pressure the government to grant them ownership of land they have occupied for the past five...
Brazilian Landowners Attack Landless
Brasilia, Dec 1 (Prensa Latina) Assassins hired by landowners attacked nearly 3,000 landless rural workers participating in a peaceful caravan, part of an initiative supporting Agrarian Reform in Brazil.
The violence took place Thursday while the landless people were approaching property of the...
Violent land clashes up in Brazil under Lula: report
November 30th, 2006
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Violent clashes over land increased during Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first term, disappointing rights groups that hoped the former union leader would alleviate rural tensions, a report issued on Thursday...
[11/30/06]
Dear Friends of the MST,
The third week of November marks two years since the Massacre of Felisburgo (MG). On November 20, 2004, 18 hooded killers, coordinated by the rancher Adriano Chafik, went to the Promised Land encampment and shot at men, women, and children. The landless workers Iraguiar Ferreira da Silva,...
MST: new series of mobilizations
Landless workers organize protests and occupations to demand swift action from the government in agrarian reform and changes in economic policies.
by Igor Ojeda, from the editorial staff of Brasil de Fato
No one knows if President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reelected on October 29th, will...
Syngenta was condemned for having an illegal GMO plantation in the state, something that is illegal in their home country of Switzerland, and a centre for agro-ecological studies will now be built in its place.
by Luís Brasilino, editorial staff of Brasil de Fato
The governor of Parana, Roberto Requiao, signed a decree...